ATI FirePro V9800 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V9800

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Dec 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

147.2GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

24

1600

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Cayman

Cypress XT GL

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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